Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-11-04
no. "A.
IN GEN ERAL.

army revolver
Jay Goulds daughter law, tho wife of
George Gould, recently cut up 10000
piece of lace that formerly belonged to the
Empress Eugeuie to make new dress for
her baby.
Daniel Riley was instantly killed near
Lowell, Mass, recently, while walking on
the track on his return from the cemetery,
where he had been making arrangements
for his wife's funeral
BY means Of an air gun Prof c. l.. Mees
has found that to drive straws into pine
boards and hickory bark, as is often done
by tornadoes, velocity Of $50 to / - Iuiles
an hour is necessary.
Snowman Barnum has leased the Madison
Square garden and will spend S15, 900 in re-
pairs. 1t will be let for various entertain
ments till March, when Baruums circus
will open It's usual season.
At Bristol, Ct, on Saturday, 22d, on oven
used for japanning at the works of j. II.
Sessions & Sons exploded with terrific force,
killing three employees, iniuring several
others, and setting fire to the building.
Co-education of the sexes is carried on
without limit in the University Of Texas,
Young men and women are admitted to the
same classes in every department, and are
eligible to the same degrees and honors.
A sentence in an American novel, "Hs
alighted and tied his horse to large locust
in front of the house." was rendered in a
French translation so that it read that hs
fastened his horse to a huge grasshopper.
John l. Blair, the richest man in New
Jersey, owns three railroads in Kansas, two
in Missouri and one in Iowa. Although "a
years old and worth dozen Millions he is
still planning new money getting projects.
A lawyer who defended an adventures
was presented, after the trial, with a gold
watch and chain as an assurance of her
gratitude. He at once recognized it as his
own. She had picked his pocket and pre-
sented him with his own watch
A new system of power is coming into
use in Birmingham, England. Compressed
air takes the place of steam. A central
engine of large size furnishes the air, and
already % miles of pipe have been laid to
| communicate with various industries.
Vermont has 1926 pensioners, to whom
are paid annually $3.50, POO. Among them
is a man who draws 50 a month and whose
| reputed wealth is over 5000, 900. He has
| asked for an increase to - month and
was among the first to apply for pension.
Excavations in Jerusalem on ground be-
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suited in the discovery of remains of the
| ancient town wall and the position of the
| gates of the town during the lifetime of
| the Saviour, through which the Saviour
passed to Golgotha
Charles g. Francklyn of New York,
| formerly the agent of the Cunard steam
| ship line, has been arrested and lodged in
| Ludlow street jail in default of $500, 900,
| for the embezZlement of some 81 0OU, 900
| belonging to a brother in law in England,
who is one of the owners of the line.
The late king of Dude, one of the semi
| Independent monarchs of India, was inter
ested in poetry, music, dancing and natural
history. He supported 1000 retainers, lived
| like prince i'll the arabian Nights, and
was always in debt, although the Anglo
Indian government gave him an annual
pension of S1,20O,0OO.
A German steamship recently took to Co
| Ion from Africa 700 Liberians, men of gi-
gantic statue and powerful physique. They
were half naked, carried queer looking
bundles upon their shoulders and spoke a
language which no one else on the Isthmus
understood. 1t is said that 1900 more will
work ON the Panama Canal
The body of the late Henry Ward Beech
| err which has remained in the reception
|
| funeral, has now been deposited in its final
resting-place, magnificent location in the
new portion of the cemetery overlooking
| the bay. The transfer of the body to the
| tomb was private, at Mrs Beechers re-
| quest.
| A great mass, comparatively speaking,
of that rare article, ambergris, was re-
Gently found by the Gloucester schooner
| Peregrine White Capt Paul Mcdonald,
while cruising off Cape Sable. 1t weighs
| l25 pounds and is worth about $50 an ounce
or just about its weight in gold, which
would make its value about $4,000. A
pretty profitable fishing trip that
A white man named Parrish shot and
| killed three negroes in Calhoun county, Fla,
a few days since. -Four negroes were using
Parrish's boat to gather up logs, when Par
IRISH came along, and, suspecting them of
an intention to steal the boat, he raised his
Winchester and shot down one in the boat,
killed another on the raft, and another who
was attempting to run away. The fourth
| dived overheard and escaped.
John o. Maloney, bachelor of 65 living
near Waterbury, Conn, died recently and
was supposed to leave considerable wealth
| behind him. Nothing was found, however,
| and it was believed he had been robbed.
Two men hunting a few days ago shot
large gray squirrel, which sought refuge in
large box high in the branches of a tree.
His nest was found to be made of $1,000
worth of chewed greenbacks.
The past year was a very disastrous one
for South Australia. The harvest was
failure, the wool market was depressed,
and a time of unprecedented commercial
depression told severely on all classes The
failure of the Commercial bank of South
Australia owing to fraud on the part of
the manager and subordinates, and entail
ing loss of 81 400, 900 on the stockhold-
ers, caused widespread misery
Instances in which the sea has been calm
ed by the use of oil have of late been 80
numerous that the expedient has begun to
receive the serious attention of scientific
men. The Nautical Society of Hamburg
has offered prize for the best essay on thS
subject, and there is now a prospect that
what was at first only an experiment may
be made a practical safeguard. The sim
plicity of the plan, instead of causing it to
be pooh -poohed, should rather commend it
to the attention Of mariners.
"When l am in the woods, +" says old Al
len Thompson in Among the Clouds" 81
never use a compass in fact, don't need
any. There are three sure ways that l
have for finding the points of compass.
You will notice that three-fourths of the
moss on trees grows on the north side the
heaviest boughs on spruce trees are always
on the south side and thirdly, the topmost
twig of every uninjured hemlock tips to the
east You Just remember these things, aud
you'll never get lost
Why is it that boat sailing before the
wind will not go as fast as one sailing with
the same wind ON the quarter A boat sail
! haf ha x-iu M M tag tar ban
the wind that drives it, A boat sailing
with the wind on the quarter has the force
of the wind continually pushing it. That
is, when the boat acquires a speed equal to
that of the wind the force still bears upon
its sails as one walking across a current
of air will always feel it, but when walking
with that same velocity with the current
will feel no wind.
Mr.. Edison has again turned his attention
to the phonograph, and announces that he
has made such improvements in this won
derful invention that it can be turned to
practical use as a means Of communication.
He employs an earphone like that used in q
telephone to facilitate hearing The opera
tion is very simple one. The man of bust
ness talks into his phonograph, and folds up
the sheet and mails it. The receiver takes
down his earphone and listens The posi-
bilities of letter writing Will be amazingly
enlarged by this device, Fine shades of
meaning may be conveyed by infections of
the voice, and dunning letters viii have
new terrors, thanks to this photographic
rhetoric.
An old-time joke of the wood working
fraternity was to send the verdant boy TO
the hardware shop for AN auger that would
bore a square hole. This promises soon 10
lose its point. There is already bit upon
the market that processes TO do this thing
by making several borings ut varying an
giles. And now an Iowa man, who has